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What does "glare" mean?

Glare: To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring. Pope.
  2. 3.To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.
  3. 4.A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare. Dryden.
  4. 5.A fierce, piercing look or stare. About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.
  5. 6.A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
  6. 7.A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. [U. S. ]
  7. 8.Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. [U. S.]

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